Some things about writing

This article made the rounds awhile ago, but I just read it yesterday: How to Write a Great Novel. It doesn't give tips but dishes on a few authors and their writing habits.

Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," shuts himself in the bathroom and perches on the edge of the tub with his notebook when he's tackling a...